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Review of iOS application: Cosmetics Pouch

Here’s a cute little application called Cosmetics Pouch full of pink and purple, bows and love. It handles more types of products than just nail polish, but since I only collect nail polish I will be reviewing it from that perspective. However, if you wish to catalog your entire make up collection, entering new items in this application works the exact same way regardless the type of product.

After the loading screen you see when you start this application for the first time, you will see the categories. Now, for everyone who doesn’t know me, I’ll just spell it out now: I am a grammar police. Thus, the lower case letters on all categories drive me nuts, as well as the first category group is called ‘eyes’ in plural, whereas the category ‘lip’ is in singular. Other than that, the categories do cover pretty much everything, plus the ‘others’ category on all groups.

In this case I have obviously chosen nail polish. As you can see, this category is empty because I haven’t entered an item yet. It’s rather difficult at first to figure out just how to enter a new item, but you simply tap the Edit button in the top right hand corner and you’ll see the screen below:

These are the parameters you can enter information to, as well as choosing an icon for your item. A big minus to this application is that you can’t take a photo of your product. You enter each parameter anew every time you create a new item, nothing gets saved in any lists or anything like that.

When you’re finished entering the information about your new item, as I have done above, you tap the Save-button at the top right hand corner and it will save your item and take you to the view below. Note that if you, like me, want all words with upper-case first letters, you have to keep tapping the Shift-button while typing because the text field is set to only lower-case.

C

I give this application a C, because it’s very limited, has no photo option and all text fields are set to lower-case which drives me absolutely nuts. It hasn’t crashed for me yet, but to be honest, I haven’t used it enough for that to happen so I can’t say anything about that. It is however a free application, so if the lack of photos and the grammar don’t bother you, this might just be the perfect application for you.

Please note that I have payed for all applications myself and am writing these reviews because I want to give future users insight into these applications. I have in no way been persuaded or compensated by the developers to write these reviews. These are all my personal, honest opinions that I hope will help other users.

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